Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

[Brian Dessent]

Nils Pipenbrinck wrote:

> Cygwin comes with a GCC 3.4.somewhat out of the box. To compile MPFR you
> need a 4.1 compiler.  So you have to double compiling everything. And

I don't know where you get that assertion but it's not true.  mpfr built
with gcc 3.4 works just fine and passes all tests in its testsuite. 
Besides, Cygwin has a binary package of mpfr 2.3.1 that you can just
install, so you don't have to compile mpfr yourself at all.

Brian